Post-Awakening - Nach dem Erwachen (Angelo DiLullo)
After an initial awakening, there is often a “honeymoon phase.” This can last weeks, months, sometimes longer. During that time, many experience a sense of peace, openness, and lightness. Suffering seems to fall away, and emotions pass through smoothly. But this phase is just the beginning. What follows is often called "shadow work." Awakening reveals what true nature is—awareness, consciousness, being—something infinite and uncaused. It’s always present and not dependent on thoughts. However, after this glimpse, life begins to show all the ways that clarity has been filtered out. Deep-seated emotional patterns and survival mechanisms come to the surface: fear of abandonment, fear of being unlovable, shame, grief. These are often unconscious, but everyone has them. Even those who grew up in loving environments hold these patterns. If one is willing to face them, awakening can deepen dramatically. Many people, however, unconsciously resist this phase. Instead of fully engagi...
